Analysis of State-Space Model based Voice Conversion

• Autorzy: Sun J. , Zhang X.

Warianty tytułu

PL

Model SSM przetwarzania sygnałów głosowych

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A new State-Space Model (SSM) based voice conversion method has been proposed recently which outperforms the traditional Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) method. Although the implementation process of the new method has been elaborated, the theoretical essence of this method has not been analysed clearly. In this paper an exhaustive analysis of the SSM based method is given theoretically and experimentally. Through these analysis, much simpler equivalence form and performance upper bound of the new method are obtained. Finally possible improvements are discussed.

PL

Przedstawiono teoretyczna i eksperymentalną analizę nowego algorytm SSM przetwarzania sygnału mowy.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

electrical technology; electrical power engineering; voice conversion; state-space model; SSM; linear multivariate regression; LMR; analysis

PL

elektrotechnika; elektroenergetyka; przetwarzanie głosu; model SSM

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT
• Czasopismo: Przegląd Elektrotechniczny
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: R. 87, nr 10
• Strony: 373--376
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 16 poz., il., tabl., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Sun J.

autor

Zhang X.

• Institute of Communications Engineering, Biaoyin 2, Yudao Street, Nanjing, China, 210007,

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